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Summer time in the country marks the opening of a football season. The farm labourer knows few half-holidays, and Saturday afternoon finds him busy with harrow or plough. He reads about football in the Sunday papers, THE only thing worth notic-and that is all: Now, however, ing in to-day's quarrel between thanks to Mr. Willett, he already Japan and China is that a scem-has an hour or two of daylight to ingly modern imperialistic ideal spare. A rough field has been is apt to wind itself up into a marked out with Coronation grannyknot with the aid of Union Jacks as corner flags; gestures on behalf of the Yellow there every evening the loyal la- River and Chinese soldiers
bourers gather to indulge in 3
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fighting in water up to their noisy game, and this goes on
waist."
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throughout the summer months. Matthew Arnold, if he were alive Around this time of the year to-day, would be able to add an- we are always depressed by the other sound to the "distant cries ARA FARARATORY TAFAKAZY |morality of the statements made of reapers in the corn."
"All
Tell me,
doctor.. What i
is a mother to do! Why, the scratch was so small you could hardly see it: blood-poisoning never entered my mind. After all, children can't si still all day-though I have asked Freddie not to play in that shed. But, I mean, it might happen to any of us—a cut, a little scratch! Tell me, what is one to do ?"
The smallest cut or scratch is enough for the gerins of blood-poisoning to enter. To the germs that cause the havoc, a tiny break in the skin is a wide-open door. There is only one way to prevent their invasion; they must be killed-at ́ once. 'Dettol,' the Modern Antiseptic, can be applied immediately; there are directions on every bottle. This thorough killer of germs is gentle and tender on human tissues. Non- poisonous and non-staining to the skin, yet death to germs. 'Dettol promptly used may save you untold pain and danger.
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Turse Gree 'Interesting ⠀ booklet
by the local Sweepstake winners. the live murmur of à summer's These fantastically lucky people day" can scarcely have included generally intend to invest their cries of "Off-side?" in his time. money, to buy small cars, buy
out a business, or to live soberly
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in modest affluence. It seems to ALL tender-hearted us that only a petty spirit would will sympathize
people
with Mussolini
greet heavenly largesse so cau-in his sad plight. Here he is, tiously. It is as though the mul- completely prepared for war and titude at Galilee had decided to not mad at anybody.
salt away their loaves, or put
their heaven-sent fish on ice. It
is the economy of scarcity in a
T. C. G.
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time of wild abundance. We don't "The Next British
approve of it. Our heroine of
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the moment, in fact, is one of the Empire" members of the Amah Syndicate.
[The syndicate that has twice The "Crown Colonist" devotes won Sweepstake prizes this sea- two pages of its June issue to a son. This kindly old soul has notice of a book with the above shown herself one of a little com-title written by a master at West- pany of true adventurers, when minster School, explaining that she refused a cash offer for her whether one accepts his conclu- share of the tickets before the sions or not, the matters with race although at the time she which he deals are of vital im- only had fifteen cents in the portance to the future of the world. In victory she remained Empire as a whole. Writing as a consistent.
lover of England and a believer. Her ambitions, she said when turbed by the effects of social in democracy, he is greatly dis- [interviewed, were to drink beer and buy some new shoes she had and apprehensive for the future seen in a shop window, not long of Britain and the Dominions be- ago. After the virtuous plans cause of population problems and expressed by most winners, we
and economic tendencies at home
are grateful to this Amah for the imminent threat, as he sees. simple vision of heart's desire. it, of attack on this country and May the beer flow strong and Empire territories by land-hun- friendly and the shoes fit well gry Powers. The picture is, no and last long.
doubt, overdrawn, although cér-- tain facts in the situation are menacing enough, and it would BOOK NOTE: Simon and be folly to ignore them. But the Schuster of New York, U.S.A., central question posed for debate have recently announced that a is whether the time for large- condensed translation of Author scale migration of 'Britons to Dale Carnegie's "How to Win or more Dominions is not
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Friends and Influence People" due, and whether a shift: v
of
has sold 15,500 copies in Tokyo. the Empire's centre of gravity Probably it has been distributed should be accompanied by a de- to the various Commanding Of-liberate and almost wholesale ficers of the Japanese Army and shedding of Britain's Indian, Naval Landing Party to be used South African and Colonial res- as a "guide" in their travels ponsibilities in order to concen- through Ching.
trate the strength of the race on the development of a new, spaci- ous and more strategically fav- LATEST statistics show that oured home and on the protection the study of the German lan- of Australasia. - Colonials will .... guage in United States high doubtless protest DETTOL
indignantly schools has fallen off 80 per cent. against such an idea: we our- since the Nazis came into power.selves think that the author is Maybe the kids feel that if they likely to perform a service by are heard speaking the language, shocking the complacency of the Hitler might feel obliged to come British people and arousing them over and liberate them to action. It is not necessary, In our view, to abandon the Co- SHANGHAI NEWS CLIPPING: lonies; nor could we, without $20 Reward - mocking our past professions of For the return of my radio Trusteeship What we ought to and for information leading to do is to redouble our efforts to the arrest and conviction of the assist them BOKE in strength person who stole it. The ra- and status.
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